Superintendent, Wood Room / Wood Yard (Cloquet, United States) bei Sappi

Safety

• Champions efforts to eliminate business unit injuries.
• Leads by example and creates a culture of responsible safety and environmental performance through the development and implementation of an area business plan.
• Tracks progress towards these goals and ensure timely follow-up for safety concerns.

Environmental

• Ensures that the operation is in compliance with all environmental permit requirements.
• Understand and communicate environmental expectations to supervisors and teams and hold them accountable for compliance.
• Ensure that environmental excursions are documented and necessary investigations are conducted. Ensure corrective actions are taken.

Production/Quality/Cost:

• Fully support pulp production goals through the control of performance measures and the achievement of availability targets.
• Coordinate maintenance activities for Wood Prep.
• Develop a business plan which enumerates operational, technical, and maintenance strategies and targets for each area of the business.  Lead teams, staff, and supervisors to meet this plan and track progress towards this goal.
• Develop forward-looking plans to achieve long term strategies through capital and operational optimization.
• Manage the department variable and fixed costs budgets, including forecasting, identify and implement improvements to keep costs within budget.
• Coordinate department activities on a mill-wide basis to ensure that resources are allocated correctly to achieve mill performance goals.

Communication - Development

• Communicate expectations to staff, supervisors, and teams and hold them accountable for meeting these expectations.
• Provide supervision and coaching to supervisors and staff to promote the development of effective operating teams.
• Work cooperatively with the other operating superintendents to develop common daily and weekly operating priorities.  Assign resources and track progress to ensure successful completion of these priorities.
• Communicate the progress of teams towards achieving area business goals.
• Act as the primary interface between the Wood Prep operations, maintenance and contractors, including coordinating daily maintenance activities as well as planning and executing maintenance outages.